The radical abortion lobby is never happy – they never have enough children, mothers, or money in their clutches.
Senate Majority Leader Senator Cathy Giessel (R), partnered with House Representative Genevieve Mina (D), in a dangerous “pharmacy modernization” experiment that is so wildly beyond their abilities that it would legalize Chemical Abortion (Mifepristone) prescription and distribution by nearly every hospital, clinic, and pharmacy in Alaska.
Senator Giessel
Now Senator Giessel has authored Senate Bill 147 and House Bill 195, presented as pharmacy modernization bills that expand the authority to prescribe and dispense controlled substances to nearly every pharmacist and pharmacy in Alaska.
Abortion inducing drugs are controlled substances and can only be prescribed and dispensed in a clinical setting – unless SB 147 and HB 195 become law.
What’s at stake with SB 147 & HB 195?
The RU 486 Chemical Abortion Cocktail of Mifepristone/Misoprostol killed 307 babies in 2019.
Planned Parenthood killed 720 babies with Mifepristone/Misoprostol from just two abortion sites last year.
- 413 more babies died horrific deaths last year than in 2019.
- 42 more mothers suffered from life-threatening complications last year than in 2019.
What started as a nightmarish 720 babies killed by Chemical Abortions from just 2 Abortion Sites last year is about to become a tidal wave of abortions across Alaska.
Senate Bill 147 & House Bill 195 are companion bills marketed as pharmacy modernization bills that extend prescription authority that is currently limited to physicians. The bills also expand pharmacies’ dispensing authority to certain controlled substances.
The RU-486 Mifepristone/Misoprostol Chemical Abortion Cocktail is a controlled substance that can only be prescribed and dispensed in clinical environments in Alaska.
If SB 147 / HB 195 become law, a pregnant mother any where in Alaska can complete a telehealth interview with a Planned Parenthood nurse (a 2024 lawsuit expanded chemical abortion prescriptions to APRNs) and have a prescription for Mifepristone/Misoprostol – a Chemical Abortion – sent to the nearest dispensing clinic or pharmacy.
That means a pregnant mother in Kwigillingok, King Salmon, Tok, and even Adak can perform a Do-It-Yourself / Self-Managed Chemical Abortion without leaving her city, town, or village.
Putting this in plain, black and white numbers: Two Planned Parenthood Abortion Sites prescribed and dispensed 720 Chemical Abortions in Alaska in 2024:
Anchorage Planned Parenthood = 540 Chemical Abortions (estimated)
Fairbanks Planned Parenthood = 180 Chemical Abortions (estimated)
Every DIY Chemical Abortion kills a baby. But the carnage is not limited to the children that die slow, excruciating deaths.
1 in 10 mothers suffers serious to life-threatening complications.
- 34 Emergency room visits or 4.73% of Alaskan women that have Chemical Abortions
- 24 Hemorrhage or 3.31%
- 20 Surgical abortions to complete botched Chemical Abortions or 2.84%
- 10 Infections or 1.34%
- 5 Hospitalizations or 0.66%
41 Other abortion-related complications or 5.68%
The possibilities are chilling:
- 13 Rural Hospitals
- 30(+) Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
- 50 Community Health Aide Program (CHAPS) Clinics
- 100(+) Sub-Regional Clinics
- 50(+) Corner pharmacies and in nearly every store across the state:
- 18 Carrs/Safeway
- 11 Fred Meyer
- 9 Walmart
- 4 Costco
- 4 Three Bears
- 4 Walgreens
If the 50 retail pharmacies listed above dispensed just one Chemical Abortion per month, the death nearly DOUBLES:
600 MORE babies could die horrible deaths.
- 28 MORE Emergency room visits or 4.73%
- 20 MORE Hemorrhage or 3.31%
- 17 MORE Surgical abortions due to botched Chemical Abortions or 2.84%
- 8 MORE Infections or 1.34%
- 5 MORE Hospitalization or 0.66%
- 41 MORE abortion-related complications or 5.68%
There are also 193 hospitals, clinics and health centers that could prescribe and dispense Chemical Abortions across the state.
The number of babies killed by Chemical Abortions alone could reach into the thousands – and the number of women suffering serious and life-threatening adverse events could reach the hundreds!
Can it get worse?
YES.
If all of that is not bad enough, Senator Giessel has the votes to pass these bills – and we cannot count on the Governor to veto them when they do.
Pro – Abortion Democrats control the Senate with 6 Planned Parenthood abortion activists, 2 more pro-abortion democrats, at least 6 Republicans supporting the bills – and a binding caucus that commits majority members’ votes to bills they bring to the Senate Floor.
Planned Parenthood abortion activists control 17 seats in the House plus independents and shape shifting Republicans like Stutes – they already have enough to pass the bill without the three Republican votes (Ruffridge, Prax, and Schwanke) already on their side.
Without massive action, SB 147 & HB 195 will sail through the House and Senate next year.
Here’s the plan:
- Overwhelming Opposition. Senator Giessel and crew will either withdraw the bills or regret every vote on them in 2026.
- Stacks of petition boxes at the Capital steps and on every politicians’ desk.
- Thousands of electronic petitions to every politician in Juneau.
- Hundreds of thousands of emails flooding politicians’ inboxes.
- Thousands of phone calls, bringing the Legislature to a grinding halt.
- Statewide Campaign. Alaska Right to Life members have already sent in hundreds of petitions – and more come in every day.
- Printing flyers.
- Recruiting petition collectors.
- Developing the normal tools for a statewide campaign to defeat these bills.
- Local Action. To protect babies and their mothers from this deadly abortion expansion, we need to defeat these bills in their own districts– and hold their formerly pro-life representatives and senators accountable for advancing abortion expanding bills.
- Church / Pastor Education
- Town Hall engagement
- Literature Drops
- Petition Gathering at Local Events
- Candidate Recruitment
Senator Cathy Giessel (R), Senate Majority Leader
Senator Giessel started her Senate Floor speech last year with “I am a regular donor at the pro-life pregnancy resource center…” and then lectured the Senate on a woman’s right to choose, to have access to “fundamental” and “life saving” “healthcare” that includes tax payer funded abortions.
Senator Giessel likened herself to Oscar Schindler in her SB 124 Abortion Procedures Act
of 2018 Presentation – a bill that would have regulated HOW babies are killed without prohibiting babies FROM being killed.
Now Senator Giessel has authored Senate Bill 147 and House Bill 195, presented as pharmacy modernization bills that expand the authority to prescribe and dispense controlled substances to nearly every pharmacist and pharmacy in Alaska.
Abortion inducing drugs are controlled substances and can only be prescribed and dispensed in a clinical setting – unless SB 147 and HB 195 become law.
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